Hey guys,
I got a Nook Simple Touch Thursday evening. This morning, I powered it on and registered it on B&N. I imaged TouchNooter to a 2gb microSD via a microSD->SD adapter, inserted it into my Nook, and it brought the TouchNooter and the screen went dark successfully. However, since then, my device has been in a boot loop and all I can make it do is reboot. I ran the factory restore function built into it (Lower two buttons), but that did nothing.
I was planning to use the n2t recovery option in case this happened, but the links to it are dead. I tried CWM, but my Nook won't boot into it for some reason.
Any ideas on how I can fix this?
Did you make a backup image before you started?
jordonwii said:
Hey guys,
I got a Nook Simple Touch Thursday evening. This morning, I powered it on and registered it on B&N. I imaged TouchNooter to a 2gb microSD via a microSD->SD adapter, inserted it into my Nook, and it brought the TouchNooter and the screen went dark successfully. However, since then, my device has been in a boot loop and all I can make it do is reboot. I ran the factory restore function built into it (Lower two buttons), but that did nothing.
I was planning to use the n2t recovery option in case this happened, but the links to it are dead. I tried CWM, but my Nook won't boot into it for some reason.
Any ideas on how I can fix this?
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You might want to try TouchFormatter. I used it successfully to recover from a failed rooting attempt.
When you have your nook restored, be sure to check what firmware version is on your nook before you try to root.
If you have US Nook with firmware 1.2 then you will need to use Tinynoot.
Be sure to make a back up of your nook before you try to root.
http://blog.the-ebook-reader.com/20...-and-restore-nook-glow-and-nook-simple-touch/
Thanks for the advice guys. Unfortunately, I already returned my Nook, for a number of reasons, so I can't do anything now.
Again, thanks anyway though. Maybe this will prove useful for another noobie.
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Hi, folks! I'll post this question here just in case I can get more help, as I've run out of ideas, and I've read all the threads on the specified subject, but none have helped. If it's against the rules, then Mods, please delete the thread. If not, Thank you.
The Problem:
I recently upgraded to CM7.2 Mirage-KANG- from Phiremod 6.2. The Nook was running great until I tried to upgrade to the ICS/CM9 nightly from here. The Nook would refuse to boot. The only way I could get it to boot was with an old CWM sd card I'd used to root it in the first place. I figured I could fix the boot by wiping the /data, /system, and /cache files from the Nook. Bad move. That just made things worse, as now, the Nook doesn't even load from the SD Card anymore unless I hold the "n" key and hold the power button.
I tried restoring it to to stock 1.01 to possibly start from scratch, and all was well, until it was time to register it. It wouldn't let me, even while on wi-fi. It would give me an "error has occurred, Nook will now Power Off" message without weven loading or anything. Upon further inspection, I checked the properties tab by accessing the wi-fi menu and saw that the model number and unit I.D.(I think) were "unknown" and in red letters.
Presently:
Since then, I tried everything from the Autonooter to the Monster Recovery Pack and nothing works. The Nook, without the Micro SD loaded, shows the Cyanogenmod7 logo loading, then goes black, though the backlight remains on. With the card, it goes straight into CWM. It sometimes doesn't boot into anything at all.
Extra Info:
I'm using a Sandisk (4) 8 GB card for the rooting and such. I normally use the 16 GB (4) model.
So my question is:
What can I do from here? Can/should I go back to the beginning as a Stock Nook 1.0, or is there a better, wiser alternative that I can use to get the Nook booting into CM7 or higher normally?
Any help'd be greatly appreciated.
Did you try following the directions on this post http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=931720
Yeah, as a matter of fact, I tried the exact same directions on both those pages, and used that exact CWM 3.0.2 img file to install the Nook 1.01 file.
From there, my Nook boots up fine, gets past the "n" logo, but once in the setup, won't register because it's serial #, Model #, and Mac Address are "missing", and won't let me past the Setup Menu.
Update: I managed to flash Stock 1.0.2. to the Nook. Upon booting it up, it prevented me from registering the Nook, until I figured out the factory mode method to bypass it, and used Autonooter to root.
Now I have a dilemma: I want to ditch Stock and jump to some sort of CM7, but Stock won't allow me to reboot into CWM at all, even after having flashed it through Rom Manager or flashing it to EMMC.
I know there's a way out, I just don't see it.
Any advice would be appreciated.
Sent from my Nook Color using xda premium
I would assume you already have CWM on a SD card. Drop your chosen CM 7 zip onto the card, boot into CWM recovery, choose the zip and install. Same should work with ICS zip but you shpuld prolly avoid it until its in more stable shape.
Hi, I'm new to all this rooting stuff and I tried following this guide:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1494901
I'm trying to root a 1.4.2 NC, but whenever I would try and boot the NC from the bootable SD card (with the manualnooter-5.02.19.apps2sd.zip and Stock kernel files that are not unzipped yet), it would just go straight to the normal lock screen.
I tried doing a complete wipe, but that "8 Turnoffs method" thing won't work for 1.4.2.
I was able to bring it back to factory settings and deregister it.
Can anyone help or find a solution to this? Or know how to make my NC boot from the SD card and go into recovery instead of it just going to the lockscreen?
Thank you in advance.
Gorondsin said:
Hi, I'm new to all this rooting stuff and I tried following this guide:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1494901
I'm trying to root a 1.4.2 NC, but whenever I would try and boot the NC from the bootable SD card (with the manualnooter-5.02.19.apps2sd.zip and Stock kernel files that are not unzipped yet), it would just go straight to the normal lock screen.
I tried doing a complete wipe, but that "8 Turnoffs method" thing won't work for 1.4.2.
I was able to bring it back to factory settings and deregister it.
Can anyone help or find a solution to this? Or know how to make my NC boot from the SD card and go into recovery instead of it just going to the lockscreen?
Thank you in advance.
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I would first go into settings-->Device Info-->About Your NOOKcolor and make sure the Model number is BNRV200. I have seen a number of people come on here thinking that they had a Nook Color, when they really had a Nook Tablet. I have also read a couple of reports of people on slickdeals.net that thought they had purchased a refurbished Nook Color from ebay, but they really received a refurbished Nook Tablet.
If you really do have a Nook Color, then I would try to rewrite the CWM image to the SD card. Before you put any files on that card, turn off your NC, insert the SD card, turn on the NC to see if it will boot into it. If it does boot into it, then I would go ahead and add the files onto the card. If the device does not boot into CWM, try with a different card.
Hi all,
Tried to root my NST with Touchnooter. Followed the instructions and rebooted after removing mSD card. I get the Nook by Barnes and Noble welcome screen and five circles that cycle. The NST flashes every once in a while but doesn't do anything else. Tried doing the factory reset by pushing the two lower buttons. No luck. Same result.
What should l try next?
Thanks!
Bob Runyan
Well...if you made a backup, then just restore your Nook and start from the beginning.
Or you can try any of those "restore" images - there is a thread about it.
The OP has probably already gotten there, but for anyone else: just keep power cycling.
The touchnooter process, even when it goes sideways, shouldn't prevent you from restoring to stock after 8 failed boots with no sdcard in the device.
The problem for me with this process is just how long it takes, because the power button on the NST is not too responsive - but eventually I get to the right number of failed boots and the little guy resets.
I got same problem when I first tried touchnooter, then I solved it with the n2T-Recovery. Here is my thread, I hope it will help.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=25528391&postcount=2
good luck.
kim1406 said:
I got same problem when I first tried touchnooter, then I solved it with the n2T-Recovery. Here is my thread, I hope it will help.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=25528391&postcount=2
good luck.
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And if n2T-Recovery doesn't work (it didn't in my case), try TouchFormatter http://forum.xda-developers.com/show....php?t=1475613.
FWIW, I had similar problems rooting my NST using the TouchNooter method but finally succeeded using MinimalTouch method http://forum.xda-developers.com/show....php?t=1346748 (after restoring my NST using TouchFormatter). MinimalTouch 2-step process seems more complicated on the surface but is fairly straightforward in practice (plus it provides the option of a partial backup/restore of the NST).
I've tried so many things and I can't get it to work which is why I'm finally posting. I have a Nook Color that had 1.4.3 on it. I used Winimg to make a bootable sd card. Once I plugged it into my nook that was power off, I plugged the power cable in to force it into CWM. I used the SD_ROOT_NT16or8gbV4_7 method. Now my Nook is stuck on the "Touch Android to Begin".
I tried booting back into CWM, then swapping SD cards with CM7 on it and it failed. I found something saying that I needed to remove the first line to fix the failing issue. Well, I did that and it said it installed, but still, nothing.
Help please
Nino
ninobrn99 said:
I've tried so many things and I can't get it to work which is why I'm finally posting. I have a Nook Color that had 1.4.3 on it. I used Winimg to make a bootable sd card. Once I plugged it into my nook that was power off, I plugged the power cable in to force it into CWM. I used the SD_ROOT_NT16or8gbV4_7 method. Now my Nook is stuck on the "Touch Android to Begin".
I tried booting back into CWM, then swapping SD cards with CM7 on it and it failed. I found something saying that I needed to remove the first line to fix the failing issue. Well, I did that and it said it installed, but still, nothing.
Help please
Nino
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i had to flash 1.4.2 then upgrade to 1.4.3 to have touch functionality on mine. give that a shot
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Please move this thread to Nook Color Q&A. This forum is strictly meant for Android development. Post questions in Q&A.
Sounds like you are using a Nook tablet ROM on a Nook color. Won't work!
ninobrn99 said:
I've tried so many things and I can't get it to work which is why I'm finally posting. I have a Nook Color that had 1.4.3 on it. I used Winimg to make a bootable sd card. Once I plugged it into my nook that was power off, I plugged the power cable in to force it into CWM. I used the SD_ROOT_NT16or8gbV4_7 method. Now my Nook is stuck on the "Touch Android to Begin".
I tried booting back into CWM, then swapping SD cards with CM7 on it and it failed. I found something saying that I needed to remove the first line to fix the failing issue. Well, I did that and it said it installed, but still, nothing.
Help please
Nino
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Yes, you did flash a Nook Tablet zip to your Nook Color. That first line that you removed was a safety check to make sure that could not happen. You messed up your partitions. Fortunately for you I have just the thing to fix you up and get moving again. Go to my partition repair thread linked in my signature and flash repair 145678 zip.
Then if you want to put the stock ROM back on, go to my tips thread linked in my signature and look at item A15. Then to root it search the development forum for Manual Nooter 5.08.20.
Sent from my Nook HD+ using Tapatalk
Hi all,
I bought my kids nooks for Christmas and rooted them all with cm7. Recently my oldest son decide he wanted to clear his nook and set it back to the factory state... (no idea why) regardless he decided to do it on his own which I only found out about after he had er bricked it. Here's a description of what he says he did.
1-Wiped the SD card
2-Copied the nook software to the sd card
3-rebooted into recovery mod
4-deleted anything he could delete? No idea, this is where I had to laugh
5-rebooted the nook, it didn't... Go figure
I'm not sure what version of recovery he had but it had to be an older version. I tried the various resets but I'm pretty sure the internals been wiped... now I did connect it to a PC and just cycled the power and it will chime recognition for a sec but then its still dead. Is there a way to create a new internal boot loader or is it spare parts?
Thanks either way, love the site
jgolds72 said:
Hi all,
I bought my kids nooks for Christmas and rooted them all with cm7. Recently my oldest son decide he wanted to clear his nook and set it back to the factory state... (no idea why) regardless he decided to do it on his own which I only found out about after he had er bricked it. Here's a description of what he says he did.
1-Wiped the SD card
2-Copied the nook software to the sd card
3-rebooted into recovery mod
4-deleted anything he could delete? No idea, this is where I had to laugh
5-rebooted the nook, it didn't... Go figure
I'm not sure what version of recovery he had but it had to be an older version. I tried the various resets but I'm pretty sure the internals been wiped... now I did connect it to a PC and just cycled the power and it will chime recognition for a sec but then its still dead. Is there a way to create a new internal boot loader or is it spare parts?
Thanks either way, love the site
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You may want to try to boot ClockWorkMod off an sd card(here is a link to a forum post about it) and if that works then you will want to follow leapinlar's post to repair the partitions here
Your issue is he probably formatted /boot (older versions of CWM allow that). If he did that it will not turn on unless there is a bootable SD in the slot. The solution is to go to my partition repair thread as the last user recommended and follow the instructions there.
Sent from my Nook HD+ running CM10.1 on emmc.